Return to Ivalice and A Missed Opportunity

[SaitoHikari]

When Squadrons were originally released, I thought it'd be building up to having a FFT-style minigame incorporated into it later on. Especially what with Matsuno returning to work on the new raid series.

Go the extra mile and get an actual Tactics-style minigame implemented too. People are itching for another Final Fantasy Tactics so much that the April Fools joke earlier this year actually got far more attention than the ones created for all the previous years (minus 8-bit Titan EX), and a significant amount of people from general gaming enthusiast websites actually subbed to FFXIV the moment they heard that Matsuno was working on something referencing FFT in this game. The man's a legend.

If they manage to make this story-based, it'd probably lead to the Grand Company lore being expanded as well, which is something that's currently quite lacking despite them being such a major part of the universe. The player's choice of enlistment could matter a lot for this, because as it currently stands, the only real difference between GC enlistment is which team you'll end up on in PvP if you don't choose the Freelancer option. The Maelstrom's story could deal with piracy and trade with other seafaring nations, the Immortal Flames' story could deal with the whole social status aspect of Ul'dah, and the Twin Adder's story could deal with the lost West Shroud.

Instead of making Lyse the leader (especially considering Squadrons can be unlocked long before the 'big reveal' anyway, spoiling the hell out of that plot point), make it so that your character is the leader and will actually go into combat alongside his/her squadron, especially since your character can freely change their job before missions. That way, you're ACTUALLY leading your squadron into combat.

[Exodyce]

Instead of making Lyse the leader , make it so that your character is the leader and will actually go into combat alongside his/her squadron, especially since your character can freely change their job before missions. That way, you're ACTUALLY leading your squadron into combat.

Oh, I absolutely don't want Lyse leading it, haha. That's just an example of a guest unit that might appear when you unlock her missions and help her out (She'd function like Delita or Agrias before you unlock her perma, or Olan/Orran. They do their own helpful things and are story characters you don't control.). Early on you might help a GC/Beast Tribes/Job Quest NPCs, etc, so they'd be the guest unit. Or no guest unit on some missions.

But yeah, a lot of hype is around FFT and with this patch featuring Ivalice, I wish we were getting some FFT battle with it.

[Nora_of_Mira]

I would be ALL OVER it if they put as much effort as TT and LoV into a tactics based mini-game using monsters/enemies as units. I honestly thought that's what LoV was going to be, based on the early screenshots.

I really miss FF Tactics. I'd kill for even a FFT:A on the Switch or something.

[Exodyce]

I would be ALL OVER it if they put as much effort as TT and LoV into a tactics based mini-game using monsters/enemies as units. I honestly thought that's what LoV was going to be, based on the early screenshots.

I really miss FF Tactics. I'd kill for even a FFT:A on the Switch or something.

Same, I was really hoping that's what LoV was going to be as well. But yeah, even if they had basically identical graphics to FFT, it would be amazing. Since they are going to let us glamour our troops, though, it seems more likely that they would just use scaled down versions of the models instead of sprites. So long as it functioned well, though, all of that is minor. A new FFT based inside of FFXIV would just make my sub on perma-renew.

[LordNickage]

If they made a FFT mini game, my social life would be over.

And I would be overjoyed.

[Exodyce]

If they made a FFT mini game, my social life would be over.

And I would be overjoyed.

We're only human, we cannot deny something so glorious.

[DarkStar]

If something like this were to happen, I'd personally like to see a few things:

1: By going through and completing missions and raising our overall Squadron Rank (or some other statistic), we unlock more open spots in our Squadron.

2: Eventually, possibly by going through related missions for the Beast Tribes, unlock the ability to recruit Beast Tribe members. Also Chocobos, obviously.

3: Maybe not FFT-style graphics entirely, but certainly FFT-style sprites representing squadron members in menus and such.

4: FFT-inspired glamour gear. For example, I'd love to get a copy of Agrias' outfit, and maybe also one of Mustadio. We'll probably get some stuff like this out of the Return to Ivalice raid, but this could be a way of introducing even more.

5: Once they get Egi-glamours in full swing, maybe this could be used to introduce Ivalician Esper egi glamours. Who else would love to summon Ultima-egi, or Adrammalech-egi?

[Exodyce]

2: Eventually, possibly by going through related missions for the Beast Tribes, unlock the ability to recruit Beast Tribe members. Also Chocobos, obviously.

3: Maybe not FFT-style graphics entirely, but certainly FFT-style sprites representing squadron members in menus and such.

4: FFT-inspired glamour gear.

Being able to recruit Beastmen after doing enough FFT battles for them and also max ranking them would be awesome.

I like these a lot. I figure since they are allowing glamouring of our squad, full sprite art would be way too much of a commitment. Having Race/Gender/Class sprites for each of the combinations using the base gear would be nice though.

That would be awesome, I want Ramza's Chapter 4 gear.

[Ametrine]

Oh yes, amd FFT style minigame would be amazing.

I'm not sure if making it Squadron based would my choice though, only from the Verminion comparison. Verminion was a sore dissapointment for me and remains so. Many of us assumed it would be turned based, and others expected a light Pokemon rip-off, instead we got the worst UI I've ever had the displeasure of handling for any game ever.

So, honestly just rehauling Verminion from the ground up and making it play more in the style of FFT would get us our minion battles, increase it's popularity in the saucer, and give us another wonderful reference to the classic spin-off series.

[AlexionSkylark]

Lord of Verminion is a RTS / MOBA, FFT is turn-based